[WikiEN-l] Discussion on English Wikipedia in languages other than English

Tue Jun 14 23:44:26 UTC 2005

Angela wrote:

>On 13/06/05, David Friedland <david at nohat.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>I have noted an increase of discussion on English Wikipedia in languages
>>other than English lately. For now, I'll forgo naming languages and
>>listing particular offenders here.
>>
>>Do we have a policy on this? Should we?
>>    
>>
>I don't see a need for a policy. It's a wiki, so anyone is free to add
>translations, or even replace the original text with English.
>
>I regularly leave messages on talk pages and user talk pages in
>English on the non-English wikis
>(<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_MediaWiki:Extlink_sample> or
><http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:PiaCarrot#Administrator> for
>example). Should I be banned from communicated in those places? Or
>should people assume good faith rather than assuming distrust and
>simply ask me to find someone to translate it if they feel a need to
>read those messages?
>
Comments in a language that I do not understand absolve me from making 
responses that I do not understand. :-)

Ec